HMAS VENDETTA, (Daring class destroyer), supported South Vietnamese battalions in a night action to the west of Tuy Hoa, Vietnam. VENDETTA was the only British-design ship employed in operations in ...
HMAS Vendetta II
Australian Naval History on 13 November 1969
HMAS VENDETTA, (Daring class destroyer), operated as Navy gunfire ship for US Infantry Corps’ operations in Vietnam. Wessex N7-211 was lost in dramatic circumstances east of Jervis Bay. While conducted ...
Australian Naval History on 3 October 1969
The Daring class destroyer HMAS VENDETTA, (CMDR E. E. Johnson, RAN), fired her first rounds in the Vietnam War against enemy rocket sites, and troop staging areas. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 September 1969
HMAS Vendetta received a detailed handover from HMAS Brisbane in Subic Bay when she arrived for service during the Vietnam War. This was the occasion for Captain Willis, Brisbane (II)’s ...
Australian Naval History on 15 September 1969
HMAS VENDETTA, (Daring class destroyer), relieved HMAS BRISBANE, (guided missile destroyer), in the US Seventh Fleet off Vietnam. VADM Sir Victor Smith presented a cheque for $32,500 to VADM William ...
Australian Naval History on 26 August 1969
HMA Ships HOBART, VENDETTA, ANZAC, DERWENT, YARRA, CURLEW, HAWK, and GULL, searched for survivors from MV NOONGAH, which foundered in heavy seas off Smoky Cape. Five of the ship’s crew ...
Australian Naval History on 23 March 1969
The Daring class destroyer HMAS VENDETTA, (CMDR E. E. Johnson, RAN), carried out naval gunfire support duties in operations off the coast of Vietman. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 November 1966
HMAS VENDETTA, (Daring class destroyer), towed the USS TIRU, (submarine), off Frederick Reef in the Coral Sea. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 May 1966
Over the night of May 20th and into the morning of May 21st HMAS VENDETTA and 723 Squadron scrambled two Iroquois to search for survivors from the Dredge WD Atlas ...
Australian Naval History on 19 February 1961
HMAS VENDETTA, (destroyer), took off 12 passengers from the Shaw Savill freighter RUNIC, aground on Middleton Reef, QLD. ...